In a message dated 9/30/01 6:23:13 AM, artsi...@mail.eunet.pt writes: << We have been talking for a while that we live in a "global world", but we did very little to understand it globally. I think it is time to try to understand it globally -- to try to understand positions that come from cultures VERY different from our owns... And even occidental cultures are different from each other...
Everything we though that we knew about inter-cultural studies and contacts will probably have to be reviewed, from now on... We have to learn to keep the space open in a much more profoundly way than we did before, I think. Best regards Artur >> Artur, Couldn't agree more with the above sentiments. One way, and only one way, there are probably more, would be for nations to finance every 18-year-old going somewhere else in the world for a minimum of three months. That somewhere else would need to be radically different than where they are now. The poor visit the rich, the rich visit the truly poor. There are other opposites that need exploring, religious, cultural, space/no space, agriculture/city, etc. And, they ALL must return home. Anyway, that might do a lot for adjusting our view of the world. Regards, Paul * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
